Anyone else seen the latest genius idea UEFA have come up with?
Scrap the CL two leg semis and have a ‘festival of football’ where two semi finals are played 5 days before in the same city hosting the final
So they are expecting 4 sets of fans to trek off to whatever far flung outpost they give the finals to not knowing when they might need return travel arrangements or how long they need accommodations for.
But as they say it’s a great opportunity for sponsors and broadcasters!!!!
It worked well when there was no fans or ticket arrangements to worry about. But can you imagine the scenario where the 4 teams involved being Liverpool, mancs, Roma and Juventus. Trying to make a stadium safe in the event we get the short straw and have to face Juventus with no segregation and neutral zones, because that's still how UEFA distribute their tickets, is the stuff of nightmares.
I see the commercial appeal of it, but this hasn't been thought through properly. It's almost as if nobody at the ticketing department at UEFA has developed a brain since 1985.
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